How to format your references using the Cancer Treatment and Research Communications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cancer Treatment and Research Communications. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

R. Weinberg, Point: Hypotheses first, Nature 464 (2010) 678.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.M. Jones, M. Widmann, Atmospheric science: early peak in Antarctic oscillation index, Nature 432 (2004) 290–291.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.M. Timm, R.R. Ramey 2nd, Nomenclature Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists, What constitutes a proper description?, Science 309 (2005) 2163–6; author reply 2163-6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X.K. Zhu, Y. Guo, R.K. O’Nions, E.D. Young, R.D. Ash, Isotopic homogeneity of iron in the early solar nebula, Nature 412 (2001) 311–313.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

S.P. Simko, Strategic Fixed Income Investing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

A. Zoubir, ed., Raman Imaging: Techniques and Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Orihuela, C. Vivas, $$H_2/H_{\infty }$$ Control for Networked Control Systems with Asynchronous Communication, in: M. Guinaldo Losada, F. Rodríguez Rubio, S. Dormido Bencomo (Eds.), Asynchronous Control for Networked Systems, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 111–131.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Cancer Treatment and Research Communications.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Big Data’s “Streetlight Effect’: Where And How We Look Affects What We See, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/big-data-s-streetlight-effect-where-and-how-we-look-affects-what-we-see/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, District of Columbia: Extent to Which Schools Receive Available Federal Education Grants, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.S. Blasdel, A phenomenological study of barriers for women in federal law enforcement, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2010.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

D. Acosta, F. Robles, Month After a Storm, Puerto Rico Awaits Power, New York Times (2017) A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Cancer Treatment and Research Communications
Abbreviation	Cancer Treat. Res. Commun.
ISSN (print)	2468-2942
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